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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Peter Thiel on how technology has saved the Keynesian bubble economy... until now

Peter Thiel speaking before the International Students for Liberty Conference, having won their annual award for Aumnus of the Year, Washington, DC, February 17th. Mr. Thiel is the venture capitalist who funded PayPal, FaceBook, LinkedIn, Spotify and many other innovations, and is an angel donor for causes devoted to individual rights and Constitutional protections.

A question on career advice in a statist economy:

There is around an hour of speech and Q&A that we will upload on President's Day, after the conference ends.

Sandra Fluke: ‘‘I’d rather be a captive Nigerian girl than touched by a Republican’’ (This is a spoof site.)

This week's reading

Powell takes readers through a series of disturbing events, missteps, and cover-ups in our federal criminal justice system. According to Powell, the malfeasance stretches across all three branches of our government — from the White House to the U.S. Senate, to members of the judiciary. Even worse, the law itself is becoming pernicious. Americans can now be prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for actions that are not crimes. And if acquitted, there is no recourse against prosecutors who hid evidence vital to the defense. Join us for a discussion of these distressing legal trends and what might be done about them.